Central Kitsap Mom Suggests Detention for Sock-Shoplifting Son

A 16-year-old Central Kitsap boy was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting and taken to the juvenile detention center at the recommendation of his mother.

The boy had been seen Saturday afternoon taking socks and a T-shirt from a Kitsap Mall department store. A witness said the boy gave the shirt to another teen male and kept the socks. The witness identified the vehicle in which he left.

A Kitsap County sheriff’s deputy stopped the vehicle around 2 p.m. on Clear Creek Road. The boy, a passenger in the vehicle, initially denied taking the socks, but did admit to taking the shirt and giving it to a friend.

When the deputy explained that there was surveillance-camera evidence of him taking the socks, the boy reached under the front passenger seat of the vehicle and pulled out two packages with a total of nine pairs of socks, valued at $15.

The boy’s mother, who was driving, recommended to the deputy that the boy be taken to juvenile detention, because it wasn’t his first shoplifting incident. She said her son has been getting in more trouble recently.